Word Meanings - SHUFFLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. "A shuffling nag." Shak. 2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. T. Burnet.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHUFFLING)
- Paltry
- Mean
- shabby
- shuffling
- trifling
- prevaricating
- shifty
- contemptible
- pitiable
- vi e
- worthless
- beggarly
- trashy
- Slippery
- Smooth
- glassy
- lubricated
- insecure
- perilous
- unsafe
- unstable
- elusive
- unprincipled
- deceptive
- evasive
- untrustworthy
- uncertain
Related words: (words related to SHUFFLING)
- SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - PERILOUS
1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - SMOOTH
1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16. - BEGGARLY
1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced - PREVARICATOR
A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution. 3. One who betrays or abuses a trust. Prynne. (more info) 1. One who prevaricates. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - ELUSIVE
Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n. - TRASHY
Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - CONTEMPTIBLENESS
The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised. - TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - SHUFFLE
1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley. 2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange. - UNCERTAINLY
In an uncertain manner. - TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle. - TRIFLING
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n. - SMOOTH-SPOKEN
Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued. - TRIFLER
One who trifles. Waterland. - SMOOTHER
One who, or that which, smooths. - DELUSIVE
Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. Whewell. -- De*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- De*lu"sive*ness, n. - TRIFLUCTUATION
A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.